The advancement of the movie is gentle, and the plot is relatively plain. Steve, a natural gas company employee played by Matt Damon, went to the town with his partner. Because the local area may contain a lot of natural gas resources, the town’s economic development is very general, mainly raising cattle and herding horses. The development of the project will affect the local economy. It is not a small boost, so the two people think that this will go very smoothly. Unexpectedly, when the officials who accepted the bribe organized the residents to announce the matter, a retired teacher expressed a different opinion, which resulted in a one-person, one-vote decision after three months. At this time, a member of an environmental protection organization also came here, showing up and telling everyone about the serious damage to the land caused by natural gas mining. Steve and his partner were losing ground, but they refused to admit defeat and kept thinking of ways to hope to win.
There is nothing to resist the power of modernization. The world is flat, and there is no paradise anymore. The quiet appearance of the town hides the anxiety caused by the economic crisis. As Steve advertised to the residents, there is no good life without money. Your child needs to go to a good school to have a good future. The land of your home can make you a millionaire can make you move to the city. In order to get everyone to sign the contract as soon as possible, they avoid talking about the exploitation of natural gas, which may also have an immeasurable impact on the local environment. When the environmental protection organization staff were called to expose and criticize, he was still aggrieved. During the dispute between the bar and the local residents, he dissatisfied with the few people who seemed to be looking for trouble and said, I don’t understand, I am I'm sending you money, so you still protect your homeland, and you still receive government relief money every month. Then he received a punch.
In fact, Steve’s words are not without reason. Economic development and the maintenance of the environment are indeed dilemmas sometimes. It is better to be able to take care of it. Unfortunately, it is often impossible to take care of it. If you want to resolutely resist behaviors that damage the environment, then you can ask yourself whether you can give up all the conveniences brought about by modernization, and this kind of convenience and this kind of modernization have to pay a price. For example, those who receive government relief funds may have tax expenditures for those relief funds derived from mining and mining developed in other regions. But on the other hand, of course they also have the right to make their own decisions, because the land is theirs and their lives are theirs. Sometimes when they make a decision, losing their hometown and homeland may never be restored. Just like Steve himself, he can only escape quickly from his dilapidated hometown, dissolve in the city, and occasionally recall the past in contemplation.
Things turned around. It turned out that the story of environmental protection personnel was fabricated and the photos were false. If Steve won the treasure, he thought he would turn defeat into victory, but the environmentalists told him that they were actually colleagues from the same company. He came here to make up a story deliberately to gain everyone’s trust, and then expose himself to make residents resent him. The other front achieves the goal. Steve was shocked. He didn't expect the company to be so mean, plus the influence of retired teachers and small town girls on him, plus the last straw of Lolita, who refused to charge an extra penny for lemonade at the entrance of the gym. He frankly told at the residents' meeting that there is a possible problem with natural gas extraction. The environmental protection personnel are actually company employees. Then, the residents shocked and he was fired. Frustrated in his career and proud in love, at the end of the movie, he successfully made an appointment with a beautiful small town girl.
Everyone’s homeland is falling. Whether it is for material development or an unchanging environment, can you return the right to choose to the parties? After all, this is their own life.
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